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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Name War Office, 1857-1964

51. IOR/L/PS/10/803

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/803
Title:
File 788/1919 Pt 1 ‘MESOPOTAMIA Disposal of River Craft E.T.S.N.Co. claim re “Khalifa”.’
Scope & Content:
This file contains papers on the petition of the ETSN Co [Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company Limited] for compensation, following the seizure of their stock of coal and the steamships Khalifah and Ishtar by Ottoman authorities in August and November 1914, and their subsequent capture a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Jun 1917-13 Dec 1920
Extent:
1 file (195 folios)

52. IOR/L/PS/10/804

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/804
Title:
File 788/1919 Pt 2 ‘MESOPOTAMIA DISPOSAL OF RIVER CRAFT (1919.)’
Scope & Content:
This volume contains correspondence on the disposal of river craft in Mesopotamia, exchanged between 9 May and 20 December 1919, after the conclusion of the First World War. It contains material relating to: The centralisation of the disposal of all small miscellaneous craft in the Ministry of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 May 1919-20 Dec 1919
Extent:
1 volume (275 folios)

53. IOR/L/PS/10/812

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/812
Title:
File 1091/1919 Pt 1-2 'Persia: Roads: - The Khanikin-Hamadan-Enzeli Road'
Scope & Content:
This volume is comprised of two parts (IOR/L/PS/10/812/1 and IOR/L/PS/10/812/2) on the construction and operation of the Khanikin [Khanaqin]-Hamadan-Enzeli [Anzali] Road, British Government expenditures toward its maintenance, and the desire of Richards, Thynne & Company Limited [Richards, T...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Feb 1919-15 Sep 1920
Extent:
1 volume (168 folios)

54. IOR/L/PS/10/833/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/833/1
Title:
File 2879/1919 Pt 1 ‘MESOPOTAMIA Kurdistan: The Suleimanieh Outbreak’
Scope & Content:
This item relates to the seizure of the ‘reins of government’ (f 283) in Suleimaniyeh [As Sulaymaniyah, also spelled Suleman Iyeh in this item], south Kurdistan, 25 May 1919, during an uprising led by Sheikh Mahmud [Shaikh Maḥmūd Barzanjī], and British military operations leading to the British M...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 May 1919-22 Dec 1921
Extent:
1 item (78 folios)

55. IOR/L/PS/10/833/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/833/2
Title:
File 2879/1919 Pt 2, ‘MESOPOTAMIA Kurdistan: The Amadia Incident’
Scope & Content:
This item relates to a violent incident on 14 July 1919 in Amadia [Amadiya], central Kurdistan, during which Captain D Willey and Lieutenant Hamish MacDonald, both of the 13th Hussars, were killed by ‘local gendarmes’ (f 200) and other officers and civilians injured. The papers notably cover and ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 May 1919-19 Nov 1919
Extent:
1 item (64 folios)

56. IOR/L/PS/10/847/5

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/847/5
Title:
File 4613/1919 Pt 5 'Mesopotamia: Land Policy. Land for Civil Cantonment.'
Scope & Content:
This item consists of part five of the subject file 4613/1919 Iraq: Land Tenure. It concerns British land policy in the occupied territories of Mesopotamia [Iraq], particularly in relation to proposed construction by the British authorities. The part contains correspondence discussing a propose...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Oct 1919-7 May 1920
Extent:

1 item (22 folios)

57. IOR/L/PS/10/847/7

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/847/7
Title:
File 4613/1919 Pt 7 'Mesopotamia: Land for Military Cantonments'
Scope & Content:
This item consists of part seven of the subject file 4613/1919 Iraq: Land Tenure. It concerns British land policy in the occupied territories of Mesopotamia [Iraq], particularly in relation to arrangements for a proposed British military cantonment in the vicinity of Baghdad. The correspondence...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Oct 1919-18 Nov 1920
Extent:

1 item (65 folios)

58. IOR/L/PS/10/847/8

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/847/8
Title:
File 4613/1919 Pt 8 'MESOPOTAMIA: ADMINISTRATION: LAND ACQUISITION OF LAND AT MAGIL: INCIDENCE OF COST'
Scope & Content:
This item consists of part eight of the subject file 4613/1919 Iraq: Land Tenure. It concerns British land policy in the occupied territories of Mesopotamia [Iraq], particularly in relation to the acquisition of land by the British for military purposes. The part is largely concerned with the a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
31 Aug 1917-7 Jun 1920
Extent:

1 item (93 folios)

59. IOR/L/PS/10/858

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/858
Title:
File 5238/1919 'Persia:- Mohammerah. Gift of guns and river steamers to the Sheikh of Mohammerah'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains correspondence, memoranda, reports, telegrams and minutes. It mainly covers conversations between British officials regarding the process of sending gifts to the Sheikh of Mohammerah [Shaikh Khaz‘al bin Jābir al-Ka‘bī of Mohammerah, now known as Khorramshahr, also written in...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Dec 1918-6 May 1927
Extent:
1 volume (218 folios)

60. IOR/L/PS/10/859

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/859
Title:
File 5257/1919 'Persia: the Military Commission'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains correspondence, memoranda, reports, telegrams and minutes. It mainly covers conversations between British officials regarding military affairs in Persia [Iran]. Related matters of discussion include the following: appointment and nomination of administrative officers, mainl...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Aug 1919-19 May 1922
Extent:
1 volume (258 folios)